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1	No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks more books like this by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts add to wishlist For 18 years, Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. However, "No Shortcuts to the Top" is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest more books like this by Bear Grylls add to wishlist Author featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show See the author's interview with Oprah: http: //www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200701/tows_past_20070131.jhtml THE KID WHO CLIMBED EVEREST is a tale of courage and determination. Bear's quest for funding for his expedition, his seventy days on Everest's southeast face, and a narrow brush with death after a ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $2.50!
3	Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest more books like this by Seaborn Beck Weathers, Stephen G Michaud add to wishlist In this memoir, a survivor of the climb chronicled in Jon Krakauer's bestselling INTO THIN AIR tells of his single minded pursuit of the sport of mountaineering and its effect on his family, and of his recovery from the tragic experience, in which he lost both hands to frostbite. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Charming Lily more books like this by Fern Michaels add to wishlist Lily Harper built a new life for herself, trading the mountains in Wyoming for Natchez, Mississippi. There, she is busy restoring an old house with the man she always loved, Matt Starr. But Lily's dreams for the future are threatened when Matt disappears. Fearing foul play, Lily is determined to find him, embarking on a dangerous journey into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places more books like this by David Breashears add to wishlist For generations of adventurers, Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground for resolute men and women. However, the question still remains: why climb? In this book, David Breashears answers with an intimate look at his life and passion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest more books like this by Lincoln Hall add to wishlist Australian mountain climber Hall chronicles the amazing story of his rescue following a night spent near the summit of Mount Everest, where he had been left for dead by the other members of his expedition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Banner in the Sky more books like this by James Ramsey Ullman add to wishlist His father dies while trying to climb Switzerland's greatest mountain--the Citadel--and young Rudi knows he must make the assault himself. "Based upon the author's personal experiences, with details from the original ascent of the Matterhorn, the story has authenticity, atmosphere, and excitement."--"Booklist." Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival more books like this by Joe Simpson add to wishlist Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest more books like this by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Broughton Coburn add to wishlist Here a Tibetan sherpa, the son of the sherpa who was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest in 1953, shares his perspective on the 1996 much-talked-about tragedy on Mount Everest, where he assisted the team that filmed their own ascent. He discusses that storied climb, along with the details of his father's earlier climb, offering a Tibetan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest more books like this by Conrad Anker add to wishlist This memoir by mountain climber Conrad Anker tells how he discovered the body of long-lost climber George Mallory, who had disappeared, with his partner Sandy Irvine, during a 1924 ascent of Mount Everest. Anker's memoir is balanced with a parallel narrative by David Roberts, which tells the story of Mallory's expedition. The question of how and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Dark Shadows Falling more books like this by Joe Simpson add to wishlist In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy more books like this by Karen James add to wishlist A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood. In December 2006, millions of people across the world prayed and waited in anguish to learn the fate of 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. The worst storm in the last decade was pounding the mountain with hurricane-force winds that would not permit the army of rescue workers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	All 14 Eight-Thousanders more books like this by Reinhold Messner add to wishlist This is a peak by peak account of perhaps the greatest achievement of mountaineer Reinhold Messner - the ascent of the world's 14 8000 metre peaks between 1970 and 1986. The fourteen chapters describe the difficulties, tragedies and ultimate successes of the ascent of each peak. In these pages is the voice of a man suffering -loneliness, despair, ... see all copies from $28.61! new only from $46.81! \| first editions
14 view cover	Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks more books like this by Clint Willis (Editor) add to wishlist Epic is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster the climb that went wrong; fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound, running low on food, water, and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. Editor Clint Willis has gathered the most exciting climbing literature of the modern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory more books like this by Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman add to wishlist An in-depth portrait of George Mallory, offering insight into the man behind the myth and the controversy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston more books like this by Bernadettle McDonald add to wishlist It was a failed summit attempt and a failed rescue in the Himalaya that brought Charles Houston, M.D., fame and adulation in the mountaineering world. His leadership of the K2 expedition of 1953 is still celebrated as the embodiment of all that is right and good in the mountains. In Brotherhood of the Rope, Bernadette McDonald traces the ... see all copies from $5.10! new only from $11.87! \| first editions
17 view cover	Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild more books like this by Chip Brown add to wishlist GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT chronicles the strange but true story of Guy Waterman, a writer, naturalist, and accomplished outdoorsman, who left civilization--including his career as a Washington speechwriter--to live off the land in rural Vermont. Years later, Waterman, who by then had lost all three of his sons to tragedy or simply to diminished ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Within Reach: My Everest Story more books like this by Mark And Jack Galvin Pfetzer add to wishlist The world's most famous teenage mountain climber offers an extraordinary account of his ascent up Mount Everest--as the youngest climber ever to attempt the feat. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Beckoning Silence more books like this by Joe Simpson add to wishlist Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friend forces a momentous decision upon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Addicted to Danger: A Memoir about Affirming Life in the Face of Death more books like this by Jim Wickwire (Introduction by), Dorothy Bullitt add to wishlist A memoir by a Seattle lawyer who climbed Mt. McKinley, Mt. Rainier, and the second largest mountain in the Himalayas. He tells of friends lost along the way, and other tales of the danger inherent in this extremely risky venture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Second Death of George Mallory: The Enigma and Spirit of Mount Everest more books like this by Reinhold Messner add to wishlist As a child, Reinhold Messner's mother read him stories about George Mallory and fellow climber Andrew Irvine; their heroic and tragic attempt to scale the world's tallest peak in 1924 inspired his own unequalled exploits in the Himalayas. To Messner, Mallory was a climber of the purest order, and his final ascent a work of genius, beauty and ... see all copies from $2.02! new only from $7.98! \| first editions
22 view cover	Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival more books like this by Joe Simpson, Chris Bonington (Foreword by) add to wishlist This is the true story of friends Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two experienced mountain climbers who met tragedy and triumph in the Andes. At the 21,000-foot peak of the mountain, Joe Simpson slipped and fell off an ice ledge, breaking his leg in the process. Although Simon Yates struggled to save Simpson, a harsh blizzard, and the fact that his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Forget Me Not: A Memoir more books like this by Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Jon Krakauer (Foreword by) add to wishlist This is a personal account of one of the greatest losses in the climbing world. It is an elegant and gripping story of tragedy, as well as unexpected joy. It is an entree into the emotional world of climbers and their families. The benefits are given to the Nepal-based Khumbu Climbing School.In 1999 Jennifer Lowe's husband Alex Lowe died ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $6.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined more books like this by David Roberts add to wishlist One of the world's best-known writers on mountaineering recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career and reconsiders the costs of this most perilous sport. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps more books like this by Fergus Fleming add to wishlist This overview of Alps exploration shows how mountaineering started with the pursuit of scientific knowledge and became a dramatic competition between nations and individuals whose recorded exploits fascinated the public. Fleming records the major climbs and climbers, each with their own unique challenges, as well as the drama within teams of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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